E-tourism application development to support integrated and disaster-safe tourism villages in Kerambitan District, Tabanan.

Kerambitan District is one of the pioneers of tourism that has contributed to raising the name of Bali in the international community. However, so far the planning and implementation of tourism activities have not accommodated the integrated tourism aspects and disaster-safe tourism services. In fact, most tourist destinations in Kerambitan are dominated by natural tourism with hilly contours, which are included in areas prone to extreme weather disasters and areas prone to flooding and landslides during high-intensity rainfall. This study aims to build an early warning system based on digital application, to help create a disaster-safe tourist village. The Waterfall Method is used in development process. This application is Android-based, and integrating the Google Firebase Cloud Messaging feature for sending messages and notifications to various Android devices. The results of this study are an SIGADis E-tourism application, which in addition to display and promote tourist location information in Kerambitan, also has safe and disaster-responsive features including the early warning system feature through messages and notifications, information list of disasters that have occurred, disaster's distribution map and the weather information each tourist location that combined with Balinese lunar calendar (Sasih). Based on the application testing results using BlackBox Testing and Beta Testing methods, the application has been running according to the desired function, able to provide information about tourism village in Kerambitam, also provide disaster messages and notifications to various android devices, and able to display disaster distribution maps and suggestions related to the disasters when bad weather or events occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]